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Robert A. Heinlein - A Comedy Of Justice
Atec Февраль 27 2008 02:52:13
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... without actually saying anything. Presently Margrethe said to me, 'Alec. Tell him.'
'You think I should?'
'I think Steve is entitled to know. And I trust him.'
'Very well. Steve, we are strangers from another world.'
He neither laughed nor smiled; he just looked interested. Presently he said, 'Flying saucer?'
'No. I mean another universe, not just another planet. Although it seems like the same planet. I mean, Margrethe and I were in a state Called Arizona and a city called Nogales just earlier today. Then it changed. Nogales shrank down and nothing was quite the same. Arizona looked about the same, although I don't know this state very well.'
'Territory.'
'Excuse me?'
'Arizona is a territory, not a state. Statehood was voted down.'
'Oh. That's the way it was in my, world, too. Something about taxes. But we didn't come from my world. Nor from Marga's world. We came, from -'I stopped. 'I'm not telling this very well.' I looked across at Margrethe. 'Can you explain it?'
'I can't explain it,' she answered, because I don't understand it. But, Steve, it's true. I'm from one world, Alec is from another world, we've lived in still another world, and we were in yet again another world this morning. And now we are here. That is why we don't have any money. No, we do have money but it's not money of this world.'
Steve said, 'Could we take this one world at a time? I'm getting dizzy
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